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This cemetery was the main burial ground of the Nazca people, who inhibited this area from around 200 AD to 800 AD. Hot and dry, this dessert surrounding allowed the Nazca people to perserve the bodies by natural mummification. These mummies were then buried with aritifacts such as ceramics and colorful textiles.
These tombs were badly damaged, unfortunately, during the latter part of the 19th century, when the area was overflowed with tomb robbers. Much valuables, especially clothings, were stolen, and the remains of the corspes were left laying on the surface.
Until 1997, skulls and bones were abound on the sand, and no regulations were imposed to stop the visitors from touching or holding the remains. This thoughtless practice further tarnish what was once a pious site.
After 1997, twelve tombs were created by matching recognizable pieces of bones into identifiable sets of skeletons, along with some ceramics and other artifacts. However, fragments of bones were still across the site.
The Cemetery of Chauchilla, because of its calamitous past, along with a long period of mismanagement, had been reduced to a mere display of an artificial amassment of bones. Leave a Comment Directions: Cemetery of Chauchilla is about 30 km from Nazca. A tour of the cemetery is usually included in the Nazca Lines flight touring package.
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Who built the lines? Why built them? What were their purposes? Why built something that couldn't be appreciated on the ground?
I am sure most people have heard of the Nazca Lines, along with the numerous questions that are for sure to follow.
Seeing the Lines first-handed didn't give me any new insight to the above questions, but the huge drawings of spider and bird and dog were interesting, like some strange classroom art class products, only each line was kilometres long,
I wish the mystery will remain unsolve, so the dog will remain a dog, instead of some stupid irrigation route. Leave a Comment
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Both hands with 9 fingers, 45m in lengh. You can clearly imagine the size of the hands incomparing with the Pan America Highway, Mirador Tower and a truck passed by. Leave a Comment
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